Diabetes and Bone Fragility

Skeletal fragility and bone quality.

Aging and fragility of bone.

Bone Fragility in Hemodialysis Patients

Bone composition: relationship to bone fragility and antiosteoporotic drug effects.

The composition of a bone can be described in terms of the mineral phase, hydroxyapatite, the organic phase, which consists of collagen type I, noncollagenous proteins, other components and water. The relative proportions of these various components vary with age, site, gender, disease and treatment. Any drug therapy could change the composition of a bone. This review, however, will only addres...

Bone fragility in Asian and Caucasian men.

Hip and vertebral fractures are a public health problem in men of Asian and Caucasian origin. Inferences regarding gender and racial/ethnic differences in fracture rates must be made cautiously as problems in case ascertainment and classification of hip fractures, and problems in defining what constitutes a vertebral 'fracture' have not been solved. However, methodological issues probably do no...